Effect Of Repetitive Optokinetic Stimulation Upon Optokinetic And Vestibular Responses

Abstract

The question of whether habituation of optokinetic nystagmus occurs with repetitive stimulation was studied in a series of trials in 15 human subjects. The results indicate that there is no response decline characteristic of habituation, but on the contrary a constant and definite increase of optokinetic response, interpreted as the result of a positive learning process. The latter does not influence or modify the caloric, rotatory and galvanic vestibular responses.